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WHITE & SONS Established 1868 Wriüfor oookltJt: .. út's Look at London TtJrraotJ" London Terrace 435 W. 23rd Street · Tel. CHelsea 3-1000 THE. TE.NNIS ;,,::1 COUll T 5 Strong Man at SOlltllamptO'l1 ":\: ::;.::::.' T HE unruffled ease (6-4, 6-3, 6-3) with which Don McNeill brushed aside the whimsy, the fretfulness, and even the occasional brilliant strokes of Frank Kovacs at the Meadow Club in Southampton last week was almost too much of a good '--' thing. It will be a shame, just when tennis is perking up again, if McN eill continues to over- power opponents who seem- ingly should offer li1uch stiff- er resistance. Of course, there's still Riggs to reckon with. He was nowhere near , his best form when he lost to Kovacs in the semi-finals, and he'll probahly feel obliged to come back with a rush in the :" J Eastern Grass Court Championships at Rye this weekend. Anyway, the final match at South- ampton was a disappointment. It was practically over by the time one white- haired matron in the stands finished tell- ing the gentleman next to her ahout her plans for the weekend and got around to the routine question: "Which one of these boys is which?" Her companion was able to say, "That's McNeill that's winning" without taking much of a gamble. Kovacs, incidentally, was up to all his old tricks, and tried out a few new ones, too. It will be interesting to see wheth r he quiets down any for the Na- tionals, in which he'll appear if some over-badgered ball boy hasn't dismem- bered him by then. The ball boys at Forest Hills haven't come up against a tyrant like him since Tilden's day, and the gallery, if it remembers that when the fuss was over Tilden had usually managed to win his match, may expect a better performance from Kovacs than he has to offer. On the other hand, he deserves more respect than the tourna- ment committee at Rye showed him by leaving him off the seeded list. T o get back to McNeill, there's still another reason to worry about him. In spite of the disheartening way he has of destroying men who should be his equals, it would be too bad to lose him to the professional promoters, and that's just what's going to happen if they get to thinking about how well he could '--' stand up against Budge. He'll probably have to win the National Championship before the offers begin to come in, but even now he obviously has the type of game the professional crowds love. It's steady and intelligent, and yet spectacu- larl)' fast. l\:lcN eill hasn't indicated, for publication, at least, how he'd feel about turning pro. He may not even consider it. Still, it's one more unpleasant thing to think about. The doubles situation began to clear up at Southampton. Schroeder and Kramer, who beat Anoo and Dee in the finals, look like the team of the year, if only because they've stuck together for quite a while now and seem to have worked out a fairly effective system. Riggs and Van Horn, who team up now and then, may plan to do so more often in the future. If they do, they must be considered. 'There still isn't a pair like Allison and Van Ryn around, though-not even Allison and Van R yn, who, although they continue to show up whenever they're invited, slow down considerably after the first round or so. In the ladies' division, there's Miss Palfrey and Miss Marble, which is plenty. They're just about as good a women's combination as has ever played. Probably the only way to disrupt them would be to tell them they looked badly in shorts. It wouldn't be true, but it 111ight upset their concen- tration. N OTEs: One of the trials of being national champion is that you ar obliged to involve yourself in social events like the mixed-doubles tourna- ment at Southampton. Riggs makes this sort of thing as painless as possible by getting his partner to stand well be- hind the baseline of the alley and stay there until it's her turn to serve.... Shields and \Vood had an ad posted near Court 1 at the Meadow Club for the Shields-Wood Service Laundry, which they started up about a year ago at 1160 Madison Avenue. They've done fine and are thinking of opening a branch in Beverly Hills. Collars are five cents; shirts a dime. Special rates for sportsl11en. -D. E. L. . Tx26x EDITORS CORRECTION IN CHAPLIN (NAVY WASHN Tx24N) PLS READ TOTAL AMOUNT SPENT $3,408,- 920,763.93 MAKING IT 93 CENTS INSTEAD 96 CENTS INS WASHN -9Ð1PKN -I. N. S. dispatch received b , a Cleveland radio station. For a minute, there, we thought it was one of those spending sprees.